Wait, they are selling the game and new map packs at the same time? I'm assuming it still comes with the 6 or so that you usually get.....so you are talking about additional maps to the ones that are normally on the games?

No. The Hardened Edition comes with a full year subscription to COD Elite premium service and if you are an elite member all of the map packs are free. Part of the COD Elite premium service is access to DLC early. They said that every month COD Elite premium members would get one or two DLC maps free. Normally the first map pack comes out in like March but if you have COD Elite you would already have had those maps for two months and would already be playing some of the maps from the next map pack.